Coronavirus: Has Covid-19 exposed UK's underlying ill health?
Some experts say the crisis has shone a light on the poor state of our health as a nation. But in many communities it has also highlighted the link between ill health and poverty.'Meeting my demons'
"Every time you sit at a table you meet your demons. So you meet the addiction every time you have to eat."Now she's trying to eat more healthily and lose weight ahead of a second bout of surgery."I had this anxiety of going out, especially with knowing I have type 2 diabetes," she says."I'm at a high level of danger so I tried to avoid going out as much as I could.
For the director of public health in Sheffield, Greg Fell, that raises some really difficult questions about the underlying state of our public health."It's the environments in which we live. It's the poverty, it's the poor housing, it's the lack of educational opportunities, it's the job opportunities," he says.
Now the author of that report, Sir Michael Marmot, says coronavirus has reinforced the connection between poverty and ill health.
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